hemicyclicadj.
/hɛmɪˈsɪklɪk/ Botany.
Applied to flowers which have the parts arranged spirally in such a manner that the transition from one series to another (e.g. from petals to stamens) occurs at the completion of a turn of the spiral; also to those which have some parts arranged spirally (acyclic) and others in whorls (cyclic).
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regular1760
decandrous1808
irregular1826
tetramerous1835
pentamerous1848
symmetrical1849
hexamerous1857
isomerous1857
octamerous1857
anisomerous1861
octomeral1871
hemicyclic1875
zygomorphic1875
zygomorphous1879
tetracyclic1880
heteromerous1882
heterocyclic1895
oligomerous1897
pleiomerous1898
decasepalous-
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 533 In hemicyclic flowers those members at least which are arranged in whorls may possibly be distributed symmetrically.
1878 W. R. McNab Bot.: Outl. Classif. Plants viii. 179 The flowers generally have the parts in whorls (cyclic). Sometimes they are wholly (acyclic) or partially spiral (hemicyclic).
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adj.1875